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production of onion seed as they have cultivated the cash crop on the ever-
highest land in the region, including its vast Barind tract during the
current season.
harvested around 300 kilograms of seed from three bigha of land last year. He
sold the seed at Taka 3,000 to 5,000 per kilogram during the last sowing
season.
season. The lucrative earning has inspired him to cultivate the onion seed on
five bigha of land this year. Production cost is around Taka 50,000 to 60,000
per bigha of land, he added.
Himel Hossain, 43, another farmer of the same village has cultivated the
cash crop on four bigha of land this season. He earned around Taka 10 lakh